Sustainable development indicators: page updated

Sustainable development indicators: page updated

In 2016 the European Commission launched a Communication on Next steps for a sustainable European future [COM(2016)739]. It maps the European policies contributing to the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular for the SDG 3 'Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages'.

In 2017 the European Commission has developed the EU SDG indicator set. For the purpose of the first SDG monitoring report, the following 6 indicators were selected for Goal 3 on health and well-being:

• Life expectancy at birth
• Self-perceived health
• Smoking prevalence
• Death rate due to chronic diseases
• Suicide rate
• Self-reported unmet need for medical care.

In addition, indicators for other SDG Goals have also been attributed to Goal 3 as 'multi-purpose indicator' such as:

• Obesity rate
• People killed in accidents at work
• People killed in road accidents
• Disturbance by noise
• Concentration of particulate matter.

Some of these indicators are common to the European Core Health Indicators (ECHI) shortlist.

The European Commission evaluates progress towards the agreed goals in a yearly report on SDG monitoring. The 2017 first Monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context is available together with several additional tools to assess the EU situation.

See also:

• EU approach to sustainable development
• Eurostat overview on Sustainable Development Goals
• Sustainable Development in the European Union - Overview of progress towards the SDGs in an EU context
• GDP and beyond
• Greening the European Semester
• Global health
• Measuring Distance to the SDG Targets - An assessment of where OECD countries stand (June 2017)